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Reference (shelfmark):: Egerton MS 2204
Title:: Bede the Venerable, In Lucae Evangelium Expositio
Scope & Content:: This 12th-century manuscript originates from the Benedictine abbey of St Mary in Reading. It contains the commentary on the Gospel of Luke by Bede the Venerable (d. 673, d. 735), an English Benedictine monk, theologian, and historian. This is one of the more than a hundred manuscripts that survi...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd or 3rd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Egerton MS 2627
Title:: Claudianus Claudius, Carmina Majora, Carmina Minora, De Raptu Proserpine
Scope & Content:: This is a 12th-century collection of works by the Alexandrian poet Claudianus Claudius (d. after 404), including De Raptu Proserpinae (The Rape of Proserpine), De Bello Gildonico (On the Gildonic War), and his poems on the marriage of the Emperor Honorius, for whom he was a court poet, and the c...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: Late 12th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Egerton MS 2782
Title:: Haimo of Auxerre, Super Isaiam
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains a commentary on the Book of Isaiah by Haimo (or Haymo) of Auxerre (d. 853). Haimo was one of the key figures in the revival of learning in the Carolingian period. Contents: ff. 1-124v: Haimo of Auxerre, Super Isaiam (Commentary on Isaiah). [ff. 125r-125v are blank]. ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd or 3rd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Egerton MS 2818
Title:: Benedict of Peterborough, Passio et Miracula Sancti Thome Cantuariensis (imperfect); John of Salisbury, Passio Sancti Thome
Scope & Content:: This manuscript consist of two parts bound together immediately after their execution at Pontigny. It was likely intended for the office of St Thomas, which was celebrated at Pontigny from 1174. The order of the two text were revised probably in the early modern period. The Passion of St Thoma...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Egerton MS 2831
Title:: Jerome, Commentarium in Isaiam, book 14 to book 18
Scope & Content:: This manuscript is thought to date from before Alcuin's arrival at the abbey of Marmoutiers (or Saint-Martin de Tours) in 796, on the basis of the owner inscription (see Provenance). It is one of the surviving witnesses of the early collaboration between Insular and Continental scribes at the Be...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd quarter of the 8th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Egerton MS 2832
Title:: Collection of Canon Laws, Lex Salica; Lex Ripuaria; Capitulare Legibus Additum; Capitulare Missorum; Recapitulatio Solidorum; Capitulare Missorum Specialia; Capitulare Haristallense; Capitula Legi Addita; Capitula Legibus Addenda
Scope & Content:: Contents: This manuscript consists of a collection of canon laws of the Merovingian and Carolingian period. It was produced in Northern France at the very end of the 9th century. This volume was originally bound together with Paris, BnF lat. MS 4633 and Egerton MS 269. It has been divided in t...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 9th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Egerton MS 2900
Title:: Constantinus Africanus, Viaticum; various medical tracts
Scope & Content:: This volume contains the Viaticum (Provision for a Journey) by Constantine the African (b. c. 1020- d. 1098/9). This is a Latin adaptation of a standard medical manual in Arabic, entitled Kitab Zad al-musafir wa-qut al-hadir (Provision for the Traveller and the Nourishment of the Settled), by Ib...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 12th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Egerton MS 2901
Title:: Collectio Francofortana with glosses
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains an anonymous collection of papal decretals known as Collectio Francofortana (The Frankfurt Collection) with marginal glosses. This is one of the only four surviving copies of the Collectio Francofortana. The manuscript was produced either in France or England, but it was...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Egerton MS 2951
Title:: Robert Partes, Poems; Peter Riga, Floridus aspectus
Scope & Content:: This manuscript is the unique witness of the poems of Robert Partes (fl. c 1170), and also includes the collection of short poems, known as the Floridus Aspectus (Appearance of Flowers), by Peter Riga(b. c 1140, d. 1209). The volume was probably produced in the Benedictine abbey of Reading, wher...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Egerton MS 2951/1
Title:: Medieval binding
Scope & Content:: Contents: Former covers of Egerton MS 2951, now kept separately. The covers consist of a folded bifolium from a 14th-century manuscript of the Gospel of St John; the bifolium contains chapters 9-10 with glosses. Decoration: Large initial in blue with red penwork decoration. Paraphs in blue o...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 14th century
Extent:: Former covers of Egerton MS 2951

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